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This painting belongs to the "Cildhood Friends" series by Daria Bagrintseva. Daria used acrylic, gold and metallic paints, as only with them she can do to achieve the desired effect of brightness, freshness and lightness. ----------- The name teddy bear comes from former United States President Theodore Roosevelt, who was commonly known as "Teddy" (though he loathed being referred to as such). The name originated from an incident on a bear hunting trip in Mississippi in November 1902, to which Roosevelt was invited by Mississippi Governor Andrew H. Longino. There were several other hunters competing, and most of them had already killed an animal. A suite of Roosevelt's attendants, led by Holt Collier, cornered, clubbed, and tied an American black bear to a willow tree after a long exhausting chase with hounds. They called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot it. He refused to shoot the bear himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike, but instructed that the bear be killed to put it out of its misery, and it became the topic of a political cartoon by Clifford Berryman in The Washington Post on November 16, 1902. While the initial cartoon of an adult black bear lassoed by a handler and a disgusted Roosevelt had symbolic overtones, later issues of that and other Berryman cartoons made the bear smaller and cuter. Morris Michtom saw the drawing of Roosevelt and was inspired to create a teddy bear. He created a tiny soft bear cub and put it in the shop window with a sign "Teddy's bear," after sending a bear to Roosevelt and receiving permission to use his name. The toys were an immediate success and Michtom founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co. At the same time in Germany, the Steiff firm, unaware of Michtom's bear, produced a stuffed bear from Richard Steiff's designs. Steiff exhibited the toy at the Leipzig Toy Fair in March 1903, where it was seen by Hermann Berg, a buyer for George Borgfeldt & Company in New York (and the brother of composer Alban Berg). He ordered 3000 to be sent to the United States. Although Steiff's records show that the bears were produced, they are not recorded as arriving in the U.S., and no example of the type, "55 PB", has ever been seen, leading to the story that the bears were shipwrecked. However, the story is disputed - Gunther Pfieffer notes that it was only recorded in 1953 and says it is more likely that the 55 PB was not sufficiently durable to survive until the present day. Although Steiff and Michtom were both making teddy bears at around the same time, neither would have known of the other's creation due to poor transatlantic communication. North American educator Seymour Eaton wrote the children's book series The Roosevelt Bears, while composer John Walter Bratton wrote an instrumental "The Teddy Bears' Picnic", a "characteristic two-step", in 1907, which later had words written to it by lyricist Jimmy Kennedy in 1932. Early teddy bears were made to look like real bears, with extended snouts and beady eyes. Modern teddy bears tend to have larger eyes and foreheads and smaller noses, babylike features that enhance the toy's cuteness. Teddy bears are also manufactured to represent different species of bear, such as polar bears and grizzly bears, as well as pandas. While early teddy bears were covered in tawny mohair fur, modern teddy bears are manufactured in a wide variety of commercially available fabrics, most commonly synthetic fur, but also velour, denim, cotton, satin, and canvas.
2016
Acrylic on Canvas
One-of-a-kind Artwork
72 W x 48 H x 1.5 D in
Not Framed
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Daria Bagrintseva is a world known contemporary artist, winner of 19 international awards in the field of art. Daria's paintings were acquired for the permanent collection of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Daria was born in Moscow and is currently based in Miami. A Master of Fine Arts, she studied in Italy, Russia, and the USA. The American magazine ‘Art Business News’ recognized Daria as one of the Top 50 Emerging Artist of the World in 2012. She is the author of the unique methodology of teaching creativity and painting for adults and children. Daria's solo exhibitions took place in more than 20 countries, and she was a Member of Art Basel Art Week in Miami 2012, 2016 and 2019. Daria has also exhibited her work as one of the selected emerging artists in the Louvre, Paris, 2011 and in the castle of Pierre Cardin on the Champs Elysees. In 2016. Her works are in private collections in Russia, USA, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Cyprus, and India. Daria has appeared in over 100 printed publications, her paintings found a home in prestigious private collections all over the world, and over 500 of her paintings have been sold. www.dariart.com
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